BEIJING (Reuters) - Many Chinese are venting their frustration at the slowing economy and the weak stock market in an unconventional place: the social media account of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
A post on Friday on protecting wild giraffes by the U.S. embassy on Weibo, a Chinese platform similar to X, has attracted 130,000 comments and 15,000 reposts as of Sunday, many of them unrelated to wildlife conservation.
“Could you spare us some missiles to bomb away the Shanghai Stock Exchange?” one user wrote in an repost of the article.
The Weibo account of the U.S. embassy in China “has become the Wailing Wall of Chinese retail equity investors”, another user wrote.
The U.S. embassy did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Your article is for Taiwan and they had a typhoon come through. Do you have anything for mainland China?
That article is about mainland China. It just says that the typhoon hit Taiwan first. However it is still about a typhoon, and while infrastructure should be built to handle the worst storms that come through it’s definitely less shocking when it fails to that than to regular rain
Both articles that parent post linked to are about mainland China.